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Hutlson',s tribute honors one ofour first astronauts
Ted FreemaQ
Joe Hudson
competitor Consolidated Fish­eries.
'We would IIy out over
the ocean and bay looking for
schools ofmenhaden andthen
radio their locations to the cap­tains
who would move in with
their nets. That helped us build
our hours up,and we were able
to get our commercial ucenses
just out ofhigh school Flying
those fish spotting missions was
the airport's biggest business for
five years."
John Williams ofMillsboro,
one of Delaware's US. senators
at the time, offered Freeman and
Hudson appointments to the
United States Naval Academy.
They were llth-graderS at Lewes
High School when they took
their tests. "I failed the mental
part of the test," said HudsolL
"Calculus tripped me up. Ted
fail~d the physical part. He had a
crossbite problem"
Although Sell Williams of-
ContInued 011 page 8
and Hudson
were working
their way
through class­esasWorld
War [J carne to
a close. Re­hoboth
Airport
hosted a unit
of the Civil Air
Patrol that
helped guard
the coast. 'Ted and I had a
World War I fighter pilot give us
our first lessons. I think his
name was Forest WyngelL He
was a good instructor. Very ar­ticulate.
He took us clean up to
cross-<:ountry flights. Then a
World War II bomber pilot
bought an interest in the airport
and started instructing. He fin­ished
us off to our private licens­es."
Still in high school Freeman
and Hudson went to work as
spotter pilots for Otis Smith's
Fish Products company and its
.... " Wlien Jq.e Hud-," shared a common dream: they
son agreed to , wanted to IIy airplanes. "One
.make a dOnlllion r summer, when we were about 14
. - for conStruction' ... or 15, Ted let me know there was
of the Ca1Jal.f'r6nt Parkin J.ewes, a job available for gassing air-he
asked that the performance planes at the Rehoboth Airport,"
pavilion be named in honor of , said Hudson. Soon theywere'
his boyhood friend Ted Free- spending all their time at the air-man.
Joe wanted to make sUre - port owned by F~lix duI:'ont and
that the community never for- " other members of the duPont
gets that one of its own was one ':, family..
of the first astronauts in th.ena-.. "Ted was an extra special guy
lion's space program.' i'" eventually lDtO spa~e. . from day one. He was a good
At the time ofhis death ~e I.Iudsonhas nothing but admi- mechanic, responsible, always
testing a jet fighter in 1964.llS an . - ration for F~1IIllI7 . good at 'Yhatever he did Of
Air Force officer,'Freem£was' h "He and his family moved .' course he had about zero inter-in
the thick 'ofastronaut sutviv31 ere wheJ?- he was about 2 years ., est in girls. They were interest-
- "":nl,;;'" H r old and settled on a farm on the ed' bini' b t h- . t ~~....". e . b' _."" d' lD U e was more lD er-had
recentlY; - , Ro. lIlS,?uv.we Roa near Five este'd in learning. I reniember
, earned a mas- ......... Po1?ts.. SllId HudsolL ~ose he often had grease imbedded in
..'!er's degree1nk _-were dirt ~ds at the tune. We the lines ofhis fingers from
"'aeronauti'cal .". wpeerde cocul ntryfrbioysdsahnid detavretli-n working on engm.. es. 0 ne f 0 our
. erigineeriDg e<,? a ose en psg teachers, Miss Anna Beebe, got
"and was-fol- j; : lD abo~t the fifth grade. We _ " on him about that one day in
b -. . ,<went tIirough all 12 grades tl>- class H' eall . ed . h-
·,owmga=,';, th tth Lewessch l" . er ynpp lDto eL trajectOry that •~ ge er a e 00 .' That waSn't important to hirn."
"woUld'have ,- Freeman,.~u~n and a third Members ofthe'Lewes High
t:aI<en him ' classmate, Bill Plckerson, all . School class of1948, Freeman
.1: ~~:. ~:''' ••"

Hutlson',s tribute honors one ofour first astronauts
Ted FreemaQ
Joe Hudson
competitor Consolidated Fish­eries.
'We would IIy out over
the ocean and bay looking for
schools ofmenhaden andthen
radio their locations to the cap­tains
who would move in with
their nets. That helped us build
our hours up,and we were able
to get our commercial ucenses
just out ofhigh school Flying
those fish spotting missions was
the airport's biggest business for
five years."
John Williams ofMillsboro,
one of Delaware's US. senators
at the time, offered Freeman and
Hudson appointments to the
United States Naval Academy.
They were llth-graderS at Lewes
High School when they took
their tests. "I failed the mental
part of the test," said HudsolL
"Calculus tripped me up. Ted
fail~d the physical part. He had a
crossbite problem"
Although Sell Williams of-
ContInued 011 page 8
and Hudson
were working
their way
through class­esasWorld
War [J carne to
a close. Re­hoboth
Airport
hosted a unit
of the Civil Air
Patrol that
helped guard
the coast. 'Ted and I had a
World War I fighter pilot give us
our first lessons. I think his
name was Forest WyngelL He
was a good instructor. Very ar­ticulate.
He took us clean up to
cross-- class H' eall . ed . h-
·,owmga=,';, th tth Lewessch l" . er ynpp lDto eL trajectOry that •~ ge er a e 00 .' That waSn't important to hirn."
"woUld'have ,- Freeman,.~u~n and a third Members ofthe'Lewes High
t:aI